Dr. Oz Waffles After CNN's Dana Bash Asks Him Flat Out to Promise Americans Will Be Able to Afford Their Health Coverage

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Source: MEDIAite

Nov 16th, 2025, 1:26 pm


CNN’s Dana Bash tried to elicit a promise from Dr. Mehmet Oz on Sunday’s State of the Union that the Trump administration will make sure Americans will be able to afford their health insurance costs, which are set to skyrocket in price by the end of the year.

Some 45 million Americans who purchase their health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace with the help of tax credits have been bracing for the end of the subsidies as laid out in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Bash asked Oz, who runs the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs, about the administration’s “plan to replace Obamacare.” “I actually did not say I was going to replace Obamacare,” Oz corrected her, continuing:

What I said was there are many ideas out there. Some of them could replace Obamacare. Many of them will not. There’s tactics that we’re discussing right now. The shutdown just ended. We were held hostage, as you know, unable to even discuss this. We didn’t have actuaries in the offices. We didn’t have insurance experts. All those folks are back working full speed, and we are giving the president lots of options. We have reinsurance as an option, which is traditionally used to make insurance more affordable. We have tactics that would allow Americans to play a different role than they historically have played in this marketplace.

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First he says -

“I actually did not say I was going to replace Obamacare,”

and then he goes on to say -

What I said was there are many ideas out there. Some of them could replace Obamacare.

So you DID "say it".

And then this -

The shutdown just ended. We were held hostage, as you know, unable to even discuss this.

It's been "discussed" for the past 15 years and the only thing that the GOP has come up with is "Repeal". Period. The only reason why it still exists is because McCain gave the thumbs down to "repeal" and that ended that (at the time).